# Deathless: The City's Thirst

Summer DB entity ID: 0086a8f5\-ef68\-47ec\-bff3\-c4adc4070b4e

Steam App ID: 410910

Negotiate water rights from scorpion gods in this necromantic legal thriller\! Discredit your boss, solve  murders, and reanimate your own corpse to keep your city from drying out\.   Deathless: The City’s Thirst  is a 150,000\-word interactive novel by Max Gladstone, author of  Choice of the Deathless  and the  Craft Sequence  novels, nominated for the John W Campbell Best New Writer Award, the XYZZY award, and the Lambda Award\. Your choices control the story\. It's entirely text\-based\-\-without graphics or sound effects\-\-and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination\.  You won the God Wars, killing the rain god and taking over his desert city\. But now the city needs water, and it’s your job to make it rain\. As a rising associate at a god\-killing public service conglomerate, you can monopolize your city’s public utilities, or fight to keep water affordable for everyone\. Build alliances with powerful necromancers, or help local farmers hold onto their land\. Find love, or betray your friends\. Overcome the trauma you suffered in the God Wars\. Prevent murders, or commit them\. Just Keep the Water Flowing\.     Play as male or female; straight, gay, or bi    Match wits with master necromancers, real estate magnates, and journalists    Climb the social ladder of Dresediel Lex    Help the needy, or laugh callously as the world burns    Drink with undead kings over the ruins of a destroyed civilization    Kill people you may later really wish you hadn't killed    Betray trusted friends and their entire society    Fight giant scorpions and renegade priests—or join forces with them    Look for love in extremely wrong places

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Choice of Games

- Publisher: Choice of Games

- Release date: Oct 23, 2015

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Indie, RPG

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Captions available, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/410910/ss\_dbff5b0e417ccc82bdc8cd11e3d8ed8b23c629e2\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114885, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/410910/ss\_c3456709288dc6a9ddc67897d8090a48854ca32a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114885, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/410910/ss\_9309f5a2b4b911b699e334038bdbb75cfaa28590\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114885, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/410910/ss\_06751c5e517ce6aa075282bfdd0607aff6511fbe\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114885, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/410910/ss\_13ef5aed518cd909f4377d94320e7684c89b5b81\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1734114885

- Price: 499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 31

- Steam positive reviews: 25

- Steam negative reviews: 6

- Steam positive percentage: 80.64516129032258%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

Review filters: \{"language":"all","review\_type":"all","purchase\_type":"all","filter\_offtopic\_activity":0\}

## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/0086a8f5-ef68-47ec-bff3-c4adc4070b4e/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/0086a8f5-ef68-47ec-bff3-c4adc4070b4e/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-28T16:58:32\.455488\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-22T07:41:24\.917795\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-22T07:41:26\.231358\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-22T07:41:25\.928375\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/410910/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/0086a8f5-ef68-47ec-bff3-c4adc4070b4e)